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Peter Popov wrote:
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> Actually, a picture *can* contain a virus. I've seen a .jpg that can
> be opened by ACDSee and PhotoShop, which is also an .exe which
> Windows starts happily. NAV identified it as some Russian virus.
Exactly. You *could* make a .jpg and fill the image data with
executable code, but as long as the extension (and MIME type on the
'net) is for an image file, you *should* have a hard time getting the
code to execute. Unless you're using IE.
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